Procedia Computer Science 3 (2011) 1588–1596 Procedia Computer Science 00 (2010) 000–000
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The effectiveness of teaching and learning history based on multicultural towards national integration in Malaysia Ahmad Ali Semana, Abdul Razaq Ahmadb, Zahara Azizc and Ahmad Rafaai Ayudind a
Centre of History, Political and Strategy, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, National University of Malaysia (UKM), 43600 UKM Bangi Selangor, Malaysia b Faculty of Education, National University of Malaysia (UKM), 43600 UKM Bangi Selangor, Malaysia c Faculty of Education, National University of Malaysia (UKM), 43600 UKM Bangi Selangor, Malaysia d Faculty of Education, National University of Malaysia (UKM), 43600 UKM Bangi Selangor, Malaysia E-mail address:
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Abstract This study was conducted using a quasi experiment to determine the effects of teaching and learning history in regards to national integration in the multicultural society of Malaysia. The three multicultural perspectives used in the teaching and learning process contain culturally historical perspectives that are related to the aspect of cultural understanding, ethnic historical perspectives that are related to racial tolerance and national historical perspectives which include the Malaysian identity. The respondents for this study were multiracial students of the Malay, Chinese and Indian origin from two different schools in Selangor, Malaysia. 81 students were assigned to the treatment group while 80 students were at the control group. The experiment was conducted over 15 weeks. The pilot study showed that the items used in this study have a high level of reliability on the Cronbach alpha index, between 0.80-0.96. The findings showed a significant difference (p
